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Men's golf: CU Buffs finish eighth at Stanford U.S. Intercollegiate

Buffzone.com

Posted:
03/30/2013 09:59:49 PM MDT

Updated:
03/30/2013 10:00:56 PM MDT

The University of Colorado men's golf team shot one of the better scores of the day and was able to move up a notch into aneighth place finish Saturday, as the 45th Annual Stanford U.S. Intercollegiate in Palo Alto, Calif. came to a close.

No. 10 Stanford led from wire-to-wire, though they had to hold off No. 8 TCU in the final round. The Cardinal won with a 23-under par team score of 817, good for a six stroke win over the Horned Frogs (823); TCU shot the low round of the tournament with an 11-under 269, thanks to four players carding rounds in the 60s. No. 22 St. Mary's finished a distant third with an 839 total (1-under).

Colorado, ranked No. 58 by GolfStat and No. 71 by Golfweek, shot the sixth best score of the day, but was only able to move up from ninth to eighth as the middle of the pack was extremely contested. CU's 2-over 282 gave it a 13-over 853 overall, in the middle of a nine-team logjam that saw the fifth through 13th place teams be separated by only 12 shots. The Buffs defeated three teams ranked ahead of them and six overall.

"It was a solid day, our best round of the tournament at 2-over," head coach Roy Edwards said. "To move up from where we were wasn't bad; there were more teams closer to us from behind than were ahead. And we got some good head to head wins."

Sophomore David Oraee recorded CU's best individual round of the tournament, posting a 3-under 67 to finish the meet at 1-over 211, tying him for 22nd place.

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He rebounded from an opening 75 with two rounds in the 60s on the 6,727-yard, par-70 Stanford Golf Course layout. Oraee played his last 30 holes at 4-under par, with an eagle and seven birdies over that span. He tied for a team best 11 birdies overall. It was his second best 54-hole score of the season, and he led the team for the third time, the first this spring.

"It was a really good round by David, he's really coming into his own," Edwards said. "He played really good (Friday) as well, he could have shot a 64 or 65. Today he played smart and confident and never put himself in bad position. He was always in a good spot, and inevitably when that happens, you'll shoot a good score."

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